Imagining home: literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women’s literature

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Imagining home: literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women’s literature

This thesis explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature. I argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of undermining the power of patriarchal values and unsettling fixed notions of home. In each of these four...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tang, Fang
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	diasporic literature identity home fantasy
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52130/

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